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The Anchorage: Poems (1999)
"The last time I was so struck as I am now reading Mark Wunderlich's new collection of poems, I was gazing at an immense Greek vase, on whose elegantly fired red and black surface were warriors, at once flaunting and shielding their nakedness, struggling with their fates, or crushed by them in eerily erotic attitudes. The Anchorage bravely takes up the raw mess of desire and pain, the cold ache of longing and loss, and in sleek and searing poems exposes the way we live now to the larger powers of the racing heart and the radiant imagination. This is a scary, sad, ecstatic, astonishing book-and a brilliant debut." -- J. D. McClatchy -
Voluntary Servitude (2004) -- Finalist, 2004 Lambda Literary Award for Gay Men's Poetry
Voluntary Servitude asks of the beloved, "You say, Don't
wreck me, and I say I won't, but how can I know that?" Here the poet is both
servant and master to memory, sex, family, and the will of the lover, and the
resulting poems describe the physical and psychological constraints and
releases of relationships at the breaking point.